Moral burden of indolence in Hammed Bello’s No Food for Lazy Man
No Food for Lazy Man draws attention to often neglected phenomena in present day daily living with each frame conveying a series of messages that visitors will find relatable as they resonate with dominant societal beliefs and real life experiences.
Artistic documentation of children’s COVID-19 experiences
By Prisca Sam-Duru The COVID-19 pandemic may someday become history but people’s experiences during the virus’ onslaught on humans, may never go away. Through diverse forms of artistic documentations, people across the world have preserved for future generations, what life looks like, as well as what it means to survive during a pandemic. In a recent digital […]
Rape of Justice movie: Factors fuelling the scourge
By Prisca Sam-Duru The rising cases of rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence especially against women and girls, have remained a major issue of great concern in the society. It’s been discovered that the spike in the number of heart-wrenching cases recorded on a daily basis has been due to silence fuelled by stigmatisation of victims […]
Chinweze’s new book boosting children’s literature
By Chukwuma Ajakah With the emergence of his new book, “Strange Friends”, Children’s book author, Prince Chinweze Isaac, rekindles hope for a possible paradigm shift from a poor reading culture to a vibrant one for present day generation of students. It is indeed a new dawn for children literature as the advent of Strange Friends […]
Omofemi: Showcasing A Woman’s Worth in Spain
By Osa Mbonu-Amadi, Arts Editor The exceptional talents of Oluwole Omofemi, the Ibadan-brought up visual artists whose signature is painting African women with afro hairstyle, has taken him to faraway Barcelona, Spain, where Sorella Acosta’s Out of Africa Contemporary Arts Gallery is showing his works titled ‘A Woman’s Worth’. In an industry in which figurative […]
A review of Aoiri Obaigbo’s The Virgin Widow
By Oluwatoyin Adepoju Aoiri Obaigbo’s The Virgin Widow boldly synthesizes the realist, the magical, the spiritual and the historical through the story of a man who chases an attractive woman only to find himself lured into a mystery which has been gathering momentum for centuries. The beauty of family life is subtly interwoven with the […]
New National Arts Theatre to be commissioned in November — Emefiele
The Governor Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele said the targetted month for the commissioning of the new National Art Theatre would be November this year.
Communal conflict in historical perspective
In a bid to put accounts of the persistent communal conflicts between two warring Delta communities in proper perspective, independent researcher and historian, M. Keme presents authenticated reports in his book titled “Civil Diary of Aladja & Ogbe-Ijoh Boundary Dispute”.
Dapo Akintunde: Designing cars that work for Africa
In a unique art exhibition of car and concept designs titled “Autovista: African Vehicle Visions” which started yesterday, March 27, and runs till April 10, 2022, at The Art Pantheon, 12D, Bosun Adekoya Street, Oniru, Lagos, Designer and Architect, Adedapo Paul Akintunde, offers drawings and designs to chart a broader vision for the automotive and creative industries in Nigeria.
“I will always love you, mummy Mercy Okorie”
It was a moment of exultation with a tinge of sadness last Saturday when students, teachers, parents, the Assemblies of God Church, friends, families and well-wishers bid goodbye to the principal of Evangel College Okokomaiko, Lagos who had been with them for 25 years.
In Otoki’s This Land Is Not for Sale, naturalism takes new leap
Oluwafemi Otoki, whose brush drips in colours of nature brings breath-taking paintings of landscape, streetscape, waterside and skyline as expressions of natural environmental beauty on canvas.
Win Arc inspires future artsits
By Japhet Davidson As part of his mission to take arts to the grassroots, the director of Win Arc Gallery, Archie Abia, relocated from the ever busy Ikeja to Peace Estate Baruwa,Ipaja and ever since then he has been doing everything possible to change the perception of the people about arts. Last week, the students […]
In the ‘Spirit of Poetry’ Contest, we rekindle students literary appetite, says Jolaosho
By Chris Onuoha It was an electrifying display of energy, intelligence, artistic dexterity by the young students from Laurel International School, Otta in Ogun State as they performed a play called “Caged Bird”, a poetry adaptation from a book authored by Maya Angelou titled, ‘When a caged bird sings.’ After that, came another performance of […]
Akam’s film, Too Sure to lose battling gambling among youths
Too Sure to Lose is an inspiration gotten from true life stories and experience from different victims involved in all forms of betting and gambling prevalent in our society today.
Spellbinding tales of problem-solving
Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness, only in a happy home life can be complete and contentment can be found, “Dorotea S. Koppliln”.
The Plaintiff in my wife
MY dear wife, you are a perpetual plaintiff in every case.
